Interesting Video (When Engineering Students Get the Keys to the Shaker Table Room) 6

• Apr 5, 2021

• #2

JStephen

Mechanical

Aug 25, 2004

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It's a student competition, testing little wooden towers to failure on a shaker table. Pretty cool!

 

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• Apr 6, 2021

• #3

dik

Structural

Apr 13, 2001

26,127

CA

Incredible last man standing...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

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• Apr 6, 2021

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SteelPE

Structural

Mar 9, 2006

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Maybe I should change the name of this thread..... as it may be a little misleading.

 

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• Apr 6, 2021

• #5

Enable

Structural

Jan 15, 2021

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CA

In university we made popsicle stick bridges and loaded them to failure. I enjoyed that but this is much cooler! Thanks for sharing.

 

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• Apr 6, 2021

• #6

MIStructE_IRE

Structural

Sep 23, 2018

816

IE

The moment frame at the 2 minute mark is interesting in how it reacts to the 6Hz while everything else around it moves!

Really cool video.

 

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• Apr 7, 2021

• #7

Illbay

Structural

May 22, 2001

54

US

I do woodworking as a hobby. I have made a few Shaker tables - also chairs, cabinets, etc. Never thought to test them to failure, however. Given the lawsuit craze, perhaps I should.

"No one is completely useless. He can always serve as a bad example." --My Dad ca. 1975

 

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• Apr 7, 2021

• #8

STrctPono

Structural

Jan 9, 2020

706

US

Good video. This is next level popsicle stick bridge competition right here!

 

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• Apr 9, 2021

• #9

NorthCivil

Civil/Environmental

Nov 13, 2012

563

NZ

My alma mater (at a top rank university) had a multi million dollar shake table that mostly sat around collecting dust when it wasnt (very) occasionally used for some abstract PHD research

As an undergrad I built a pop-can crusher and an RC hovercraft as my major undergrad projects

Meanwhile I wonder why I spend half my time in shock and the other half of my time banging my head against the wall when I deal with half of my colleagues in the profession (to be fair there are a lot of brilliant colleagues as well)

As we wonder in awe at how it could be that the Japanese are such better earthquake engineers

 

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